Drug problem

[rattler]

I got this in an email today thought i would share it.


Amen to this one!!!

>
> The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a
> methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining
> county and he asked me a rhetorical question,
>
> ''Why didn't we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?'' I
> replied, "I had a drug problem when I was young." I was drug to church
> on Sunday morning. I was drug to church for weddings and funerals.
>
> I was drug to family reunions and community socials no matter the
> weather. I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults. I
> was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie,
> brought home a bad report card, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of
> the teacher or the preacher, or if I didn't put forth my best effort in
> everything that was asked of me.
>
> I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if
> I uttered a profane four-letter word. I was drug out to pull weeds in
> mom's garden and flowerbeds and cockleburs out of dad's fields.
>
> I was drug to the homes of family, friends, and neighbors to help out
> some poor soul who had no one to mow the yard, repair the clothesline,
> or chop some firewood; and if my mother had ever known that I took a
> single dime as a tip for this kindness, she would have drug me back to
> the woodshed.
>
> Those drugs are still in my veins; and they affect my behavior in
> everything I do, say, and think. They are stronger than cocaine, crack,
> or heroin; and, if today's children had this kind of drug problem.
>
> America would be a better place.


rattler

 

[jfont]

Amen to that.

 

[novatech]

These are great practices for raising kids.
Unfortunately when kids are no longer kids and become adolescent's all that training and effort goes to somewhere. They become like the people they associate with. If you want to know what they are really doing you have to become a better sneak than they are. You have to talk to their friends as if they were your own. If the friends are not the type of people you want your children with then you must get rid of them. Check on your kids in the middle of the night. Feel the hood of the car early in the morning. When they accuse you of not trusting them tell them you don't. When they tell you that you are not being fair tell them you don't intend to be. I would rather alienate my kids rather than allow them to get on drugs due to a lack of effort.
No matter what you do they still have to make their own choices. You can only hope they will make the right ones.
Discipline alone will not work. You must include love.

 

[Alice]

These are great practices for raising kids.
Unfortunately when kids are no longer kids and become adolescent's all that training and effort goes to somewhere. They become like the people they associate with. If you want to know what they are really doing you have to become a better sneak than they are. You have to talk to their friends as if they were your own. If the friends are not the type of people you want your children with then you must get rid of them. Check on your kids in the middle of the night. Feel the hood of the car early in the morning. When they accuse you of not trusting them tell them you don't. When they tell you that you are not being fair tell them you don't intend to be. I would rather alienate my kids rather than allow them to get on drugs due to a lack of effort.
No matter what you do they still have to make their own choices. You can only hope they will make the right ones.
Discipline alone will not work. You must include love.

Amen, brother!!!!!!

Alice

 

[hillsdown]

I was in the mall the other day and there was a charity with their hand out begging for money to fight crack usage in schools.

The main crack heads around here are from middle to upper class families. Let them pay for it themselves.We need to bring back corporal punishment.

 

[larryshoat]

Good job rattler alot of truth in that.

Larry

 

[Calman]

Raising children up to be honest,respectable,Godfearing young men and women in today's world is a hard job. So many parents just have them and don't take the time,or have the patitence.And then there's those that don't even care.
Nobody ever said raising children was an easy job. You raise them the best you know how,point them in the right direction and when they're on their own they will do their own thing.

So many temptations in the world today.

Cal

 

[grannysoo]

Well said. My parents had me on those same drugs. I gave them to my kids when they were growing up too...